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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Money for Power | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked English, French, American jumpers, lined up and broke before the flag sent them away for the Grand National, the world's most famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Looks like rain, Lawd, looks like rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...gonna rain, Lawd, ain't gonna rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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